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The Daily journal-herald. (Delaware, Ohio), 1916-12-29

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WEATHER—Pair, somewhat colde r tonight; Saturday fair.
DULAWARE, OHIO, l-KIOAV EVENING, DECEMBER 2», 1»1«.
VOLUME 74. NO. 219.
PRICE TEN CENTS PER WEEK
ANOTHER
ALLIED
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Entente Armies Will Make
One More Gigantic Attempt to Break Lines at
German Front -Wilson
Note Considered Move for
Pejwe.
BY CARL W. ACKERMAN
United Frees Staff Correspondent.
Dr. Lounsbury, Guilty,
Died Today With Pneumonia
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 29—Dr. Henry
A. Lounsbury who pleaded guilty to
causing the death of Mrs. Madaline
Kramer through an illegal operation,
died at Receiving hospital at 3:30
this morning^ He was taken il!
Tuesday and hiB ailment was diagnosed yesterday as pneumonia.
VILLA PUTS
10H AND
EVACUATES
Berlin, via Wireless to the United
Press, Dec. 29—Judging from unofficial reports from the front and diplomatic comment, the peace efforts
President Wilson, the central powers and Switzerland are now making
will not succeed immediately in
bringing the war to an end.
That the war wlll not end without
the allies making another gigantic,
concentrated effort to break the German front is indicated by the artillery preparations which are being
made.
England, in the west, her allies in
Greece and Russian in Rumania, apparently expect to accept Von Hin-
denburg's challenge for winter battle.
When these battles begin peace
talk will probably subside to await
the outcome of the bitter struggles.
It is believed in Berlin that England
intends to give Lloyd George a trial
as premier. Considerable depends
«n his efforts it is believed here
(whether peace talk is revived in the
summer or fall after the issue has
again been tested by men and steel
on the fighting fronts. Germany believes the entente powers will again
meet defeat in their efforts to break
the Teutonic lines. The belief that
peace will not come until after the
allies have attempted another gigantic offensive is voiced hy the Vossis-
che Zeltung which points out tbe
preparations that are being made on
all fronts by Germany's enemies.
"In the west there is considerable
English artillery activity," the paper
declares. "Beginning between Lille
and Ypres a new great English offensive may he expected. Everything is fully prepared.
"In Rumania our fore-troops are
again in close touch with the enemy.
They have recently made large numbers of prisoners. Big battle developments are expected there
shortly.
"ln Macedonia something appears
to be developing. One concludes
therefore that General Sarrail has
returned to his original plan of
breaking our line in the middle after
his attempt on the small left wing
near Monastir. Hostile successes |c?
there may be considered generally
as a failure."
In the above dispatch from Mr.
Ackerman—the first definite statement from Berlin that peace is not
expected until after another allied
offensive—the reference to the
"peace efforts of President Wilson,
the central powers and Switzerland"
I', may be distinctly significant.
' u ,ia apparent that despite
Bandit Leader Makes Levy
of One Hundred Thousand
Pesos on City—Careful
Not To Harm Foreigners.
MARY GARDEN, IN AMERICA AGAIN,
IS SO THIN SHE CAN COUNT HER RIBS
SENATORS
Mary Garden, snapped on her arrival in New York with Mr. Alexander
Powell, prominent New York clubman.
Mary Garden, the famous American prima donna, has just returned
from Paris for a season of opera in Chicago. She says ihe weighs only 119
sounds and is so thin she can count her ribs.
E
Million Dollar Loss in
Toronto Car Barn Fire
Poindexter, Weeks and
Sutherland Oppose Secret
Moves and Say Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Also Kept in Dark.
BY WEBB MILLER
I'nited Press Staff < <«rres pun dent.
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 29.—After
levying a "war loan" of one hundred
thousand pesos on the city Villa has
evacuated Torreon and is now on
the march toward Saltillo according
to reports given out by Carranza
military officials at Juarez. The
Coahuila metropolis has been re-occupied by government troops under
General Murguiait was announced.
While In Torreon Villa was careful not to harm any foreigners or
their property.
Mexican government officials to
day admitted that the garrison at
Saltillo had evacuated the town last
week, leaving it unprotected, while
the garrison at Monterey is weak
and unless reinforced will make no
stand against the Villistas.
In United States official quarters
here doubt was expressed that Villa
had evacuated Torreon as little information tending to confirm this report had reached this border. Earlier reports indicated that the bandit chieftain intended to hold the
city and make it his base of operations as its location controlled the
railroad situation in northern Mexico. During last night a heavy patrol of American troops was posted
opposite the point where sniping
from the Mexican side of the order
started yesterday morning.
T
ADVANCE AT
A
Seven Hurt When Crowded
Trailer Jumps the Track
i
Will Recommend That Only
Trained Men be Inspectors
It, is apparent that despite the
statements of officials of the Amer
iean government that the Wilson
note was designed as a warning to
Germany and to forestall a break on
the submarine issue, it is regarded
there as a move for peace.
Tbe despatch to the United Press
was passed by .the German censor
With the phrase coupling President
Wilson, the central powers and
Switzerland in efforts to bring about
peace.
Ackerman's phraseology may tie
taken as merely reflecting the general impression in the circles from
which he obtained the information
on which his story is based.
It is also significant that the despatch from Berlin shows the view
of success growing out of the peace
proposals as diametrically opposed
i to those of German Ambassador Von
Bernstorff In Washington. The latter hu expressed the opinion that
at least a conference would be
brought about .
Columbus, Dec. 29—A committee
of the Ohio Safety Directors association, representing large industrial
in the state, will recommend today to the state industrial
commission and Governor-elect Cox
that the state employ only specially
trained men as workships and fac
tories inspectors.
Escape With $6,000
Reforming of Rumanian
Lines and Aid of Russians!
Together With Natural
Hindrances Expected To
Halt Offensive.
Cleveland, O., Dec. 29—Seven persons were hurt and a score of others
injured when the crowded trailer of
a city car jumped the track here to-
j day. The trailer crashed into a telephone pole. Clarence Knox, the
most seriously injured is believed
i to have suffered internal injuries.
London, Dec. 29—Re-forming of
Rumanian's iorces, reinforced by
Russian troops, along a new line
marked by the rivers Sereth and
Danube and stoppage of the German
offensive along this almost impregnable front is the next development
in the far eastern fighting looked
for here.
The enemy's Dobrudja advance is
now practically at a standstill. It
is pointed out tbe Germans have
now almost reached the marshy lake
territory about the Danube and their
advance here will he so impeded hy
natural obstacles that defense hy the
Russians will he easy. Along the
line of the river Sereth to which
point it is assumed here the scattered Rumanian army was sent for reforming, natural advantages also
favor the defenders.
Washington, Dec. 29—Three United States senators today denounced
the recent handling of this country's
international affairs as a reversion
to secret diplomacy. They declared
that not only have recent matters
been hedged about with secrecy as
far as the public is concerned but
that even the senate foreign relations
committee has not been given opportunity "to know what is going on."
The senators who thus vorced disapproval of this government's methods in handling the country's foreign affairs are Poindexter, of Washington state; Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Sutherland, of Utah.
"My understanding is that the
present administration has declared
itself an ardent foe to secret diplomacy," said Poindexter. "In practice
however, it has shown itself a past
master in the art of mystery and concealment.
"There are veiled rumors of sec
ret policies affecting the vital interests of the country which the president will commit to us without consulting us. There is even a debate
of public men as to the ultimate extreme limits of the constitutional
powers of the president to set aside
the Monroe doctrine; for instance:
To enter into a league of peace or
agree to do so; or to commit the
Denison, Tex., Dec. 29—Six bandits dynamited the vault of the bank
at Hagerman, 18 miles west of here
early today escaping with $6,000. A
posse, hastily organized after being
awakened by the explosion exchanged shots with the robbers as the latter dashed out of town in an automobile. No one is believed to have been
hit.
ATTEMPTS TO
REVEAL THEIR
El
STRIKES
FjJRED
Refusal of Railroads To
Agree To Operation of
Adamson Law Until After
Supreme Court Decision
May Be Trouble.
Toronto, Ont., Dec. 29—The King
Street barns of the Toronto Street
Railway were destroyed by fire early-
today. The loss is estimated at
nearly a million dollars. Three hundred cars were totally destroyed.
The fire started in the repair shop.
BELGIANS
III RELIEF
AMERICA
WILL PASS
ON SECRET
PEJCE_TERMS
Officials Say That United
States Will Assume Position of Messenger Only,
However, Without Urging
Peace Conference.
ARRESTED
Germany Charged By Ministry of Justice With De
porting Men Employed,
And Aiding With Uplift
ing of Own People.
BV LOWELL MILLETT
United Press Staff Correspondent.
London, Dec. 29.—Germany is
now going so far in her Belgian
deportation as to arrest and transfer from Belgian soil Belgians engaged in relief work and hitherto
protected by the card of the American relief commission.
Such charge was made 'today to
the United Press by the Belgian ministry of justice.
"Not only are the Germans deporting men who are still employed,"
the ministry asserted,*"not only are
they carrying off children from 15
to 17 years old and factory managers, farmers and physicians, but
they are brutally prresting for de-
country to that policy without thei portation Belgians ngaged in the re-
advice and consent of the senate.
"What is more important is that
these great movements are taken
without the advice and consent of
public opinion which ls supposed to
he the governing factor in a democracy such as this.
"It is far better that secret diplomacy insofar as vital policies are
concerned should he done away with
forever.
"Sunlight and the open air are thej relief commission were among
great disinfectants in the world und I men takpn to Germany,
would tend to a wholesome conduct I
of our foreign affairs."
lief of their own countrymen
"This new outrage has been committed in at least three cities.
"At Gahbloux two chiefs of the local agency of the i?*lief eonimittr ■ and
two other members of the organization were deported. At Libramont.
21 employes of the national relief
cniimittee were deported. During
a slave raid at Arlon, 43 employes
of the local regional agencies of the
400
CHICAGO — Government ownership of the hen is more important
that telephones, said President Sunny, of the Chicago Telephone Co.,
discussing possible remedies for the
high cost of living.
EVANSTON, ILL.—Light bulbs
were stolen from Christmas trees on
the campus at Northwestern university and now "peace on earth" is
maintained by an armed guard.
CLEVELAND—"Cinema neck" le
a new disease here, Dr. Ralph Scherz
says. It's caused by looking up at
the tall buildings and being thrilled.
Prosecution Believes Words
of Hetrick and Kiser Indicate Latter Feared Post
Mortem Examination.
YOUNGSTOWN — Earl F. Mitchell, 24, was shot and killed by Edward ('. Enoch while Mitchell and
the former's wife were eating ice
New York, Dec. 29—The refusal cream in a store.
of railroads to agree to operation of? '
the Adamson s-hour law, with itsj
subsequent $5,000,000 monthly increase in salaries for railroad employes beginning January 1, may
presage sporadic strikes on roads
throughout the country it war believ-
ed today. Tbe employes Insist on
the law being put into force January 1.
The railroads refused to accept the
terms of the law until a decision has
heen given by the I'nited States su-
preme court.
a compromise similar to that ef- j French Infantry and Ma-
fected with the switchmen's union
was refused by the brotherhoods.
Brotherhood heads refused to talk
of a strike. They fear, however individual action by Members of the
Brotherhoods.
I the German authorities defend their
i policy of deportations on the ground
| that they are thus checking unemployment they are merely trying to
bluff neutrals."
SCREEN OF
FIRE SIOPS
E
Ask Judges to Ser' More
Women to Marysville Pen
Columbus, O.. Dec. 29—To make
• greater use of the state reformatory
j for women at Marysville, (low Wil-
I.
BY 3. P. VODER
United Precss Staff <'orre«peundent.
Washington, Dec. L'9. — If Germany desires that the United States
pass along any secret peace terms
for the entente allies to consider at
a round table session, this government will lend itself to that work.
A high state department official
said this today, but qualified his remarks by emphasizing that the U.
S. would be acting "merely as a mes-
senger."
It was suggested to him that Germany is apparently trying to maneuver the U. S. into the furthering such
a secret peace conference as Germany avowedly and assiduously is
working for.
"Would the U. S. act publicly and
j lay its cards on the table in such a
i case," he was asked.
"I don't think we would have any
I cards to lay nn the table." he an-
1 swered.
Another official of the department
| when questioned on this point declared that when this government
acts as "the messenger" for one side
or the other any communications
which it handles must be kept secret if the power transmitting such
a communication requests it. The
idea of a break with Germany ovpr
submarine warfare, if the peace pro-
i iiosals fall Hat, is not generally held
here.
Those officials who have lalked
with British Ambassador Sir Cecil
Spring Rice say the allies never will
consent to what appears to be Germany's present chief objective, namely tlie calling of a conference before
speeific terms are publicly announced. There were some interpreters
of the administration's actions who
today held the belief that talk of a
break with Germany over submarine warfare should peace proposals
fall flat, is another "home-made crisis" put forth with a view to influencing Germany. An administration
official today used the word "bungle" in describing his view of the
manner in which the state department handled the publicity arrangements regarding the president's peace
notes and the subsequent Lansing Interpretations interpretations —
especially the tirst which he said, was
"obviously, unpremeditated." The
|second-explanatory statement, was Issued, it was declared, wholly for the
purpose of making clear to Germany
ithat as long as she- keeps t'i the let
ter of International law where Amer-
lis has issued a proclamation calling' jcan rj_i,ts are concerned, she need
on judges to send there more women offenders, now sent to jails and
j workhouses.
The institution, capable of housing 100 to 200 inmates, now has
'less than 40.
I
chine Guns Cause Failure
of Attack Between Hill
304 and Dead Man's Hill.
Cercone is Convicted
have no fear of any change in this
government's attitude of neutrality.
One of the many interpretations
which have been placed on the peace
.notes themselves an-' the subsequent
Iexplanation is brie • that it is now
! wholly up to Germ iy whether this
government will remain neutral or
' cast its lot with the allies.
Fremont, O., Dec. 29—When
Philip Hetrick brother of the late
Mrs. Martha Kiser, for whose death
her husband, Josh R. Kiser is on
trial here, resumed testimony today
the state's attorneys attempted to
bring out further the conversations
Hetrick had with Kiser after Mrs.
Kiser's death.
The conversations, the prosecution
was convinced after yesterday afternoon's session, indicated that Kiser
had a certain fear that a post mortem
examination of his wife's body might
disclose poison in her stomach. Kiser
is accused of poisoning his wife.
CINCINNATI — Dr. Julian Mor-
genstein was elected president of the
Ohio Jewish Religious Educational?
association at tbe closing session of
the organization.
CANTON — The body of Adam
Shriver, 92, will be buried in a walnut coffin which he made more than
30 years ago.
FINDLAY — News has been received here of the death of Frederick
R. Shaler. noted artist, in Italy.
FOSTORIA — Isabelle Meyers, 16,
has been asleep for five days. Although ln perfect health she has
been in comatose state several times
before for four ane ave aays.
Marion, O., Dec. 29—Raffaele Cercone, 40, Italian merchant was convicted of second degree murder early
today after an all night session of
the jury. He shot to death Oliver
self defense.
Paris, Dec. 29—A sudden German
offensive following a violent liom-
Kducational|l,ardmentl,etweenHi»304and I).;id!|!ilin, f.oIored, and ,
Man's hill, which failed ow.ng to a'
French screen of infantry and machine gun fire was reported in today's official statement. A small
number of Germans penetrated to a
French trench south of Dead Man's
hill.
The German attack was on a front
of approximately two miles, according to the French official statement.
One other German offensive movement was also reported defeated.
This was repulsed by French forces
of a strong German reconnoisance
on the right bank of the Meuse near
Hardaumont.
Premier Borden Will
Attend War Conference
NEW YORK—Hips in tho discard
for several seasons, are coming in.
Miss Dorothy Gerard, a buyer arriving from Paris, brought word of the
return of the hips and light skirts
so no one will doubt their presence.
NEW YORK--Dr. Edward Smith
found Edward Malbertson, 15, in bis
apartment in the early morning
First he called the police and then
the cook. Instead of jail Edwan
sot a breakfast.
Ottawa. Ont., Dec ii Premier
Borden has accepted the invitation
of tii?- imperial government in London to attend a war conference in
he? near future.
COLUMBUS — The state commission for the care of crippled chil-
1ren will ask the legislature for
$200,000 for the erection of a hos-
lital for deformed children to be located here.
DAYTON — The body of Mike
Korean was found in the bottom of
in elevator pit of the packing house
here he was employed.